Information from pharmaceutical companies and the quality, quantity, and cost of physicians' prescribing: a systematic review by Spurling, Geoffrey K., Mansfield, Peter R., Montgomery, Brett D., Lexchin, Joel, Doust, Jenny, Othman, Noordin, Vitry, Agnes I.

“…Background Pharmaceutical companies spent $57.5 billion on pharmaceutical promotion in the United States in 2004. …”
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Palm oil shell aggregate as cool pavement by replacing fine aggregate by Mohd Anuar, Mohd Aliff

“…Statistical analysis showed the ANOVA mean surface temperature indicates a significant reduction of pavement surface temperature due to increased amount of POSA as fine aggregate replacement. Overall finding concludes that P10, P20, P30, P40 and P50 as having a good potential to be used as cool material for paving based on its thermal performance on trafficked road. …”
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Classic lattice corneal dystrophy associated with monoclonal gammopathy following exclusion of a TGFBI mutation by Mohd. Kamal, Khairidzan, Rayner, Sylvia A., Chen, Michael C., Aldave, Anthony J.

“…Serum protein electrophoresis revealed the presence of a monoclonal spike and based on the results of additional investigations, the patient was diagnosed with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS). …”
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Performance of underside shaped concrete blocks for pavement by Mohamed, Azman

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A molecular docking study repurposes FDA approved iron oxide nanoparticles to treat and control COVID-19 infection by Abo-zeid, Yasmin, Ismail, Nasser S., McLean, Gary R., Hamdy, Nadia M.

“…Therefore, we performed a docking study to explore the interaction of IONPs (Fe2O3 and Fe3O4) with the spike protein receptor binding domain (S1-RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 that is required for virus attachment to the host cell receptors. …”
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Identification of similar epitopes between SARS-CoV-2 and Bacillus Calmette-Guérin: potential for cross-reactive adaptive immunity by Urbán, Szabolcs, Paragi, Gábor, Burián, Katalin, McLean, Gary R., Virok, Dezső P.

“…The SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes represented 16 SARS-CoV-2 proteins, the SARS-CoV-2 B cell epitopes represented 5 SARS-CoV-2 proteins, including the receptor binding domain of the spike glycoprotein. Conclusion: Altogether our results provide a mechanistic basis for the potential cross-reactive adaptive immunity that may exists between the two microorganisms.…”
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Evaluation of Malaysian' s children websites using fuzzy computing with expressions by Mahmud, Murni, Md. Tap, Abu Osman, Raja Mohd., Noorhazwani

“…They are easily attracted to displayed images and icons rather than numbers. Therefore, in any evaluation with children, it is better to avoid the use of numerical scaling towards them. …”
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Public environmental awareness and performance in Kuala Lumpur City, Malaysia — a case study on household electrical and electronic equipment by Rafia, Afroz, Masud, Muhammad Mehedi, Akhtar, Rulia, Duasa, Jarita

“…It is interesting to find that much of the EEE was updated within two thirds of their designed lifetime.…”
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Biofuel potential within chaetoceros species (bacillartophyceae) from coastal water of Pahang, Malaysia by Mohamad Anuar, Mohamad Fuad, Mohammad Noor, Normawaty, Khan Chowdhury, Ahmed Jalal, Yunus, Kamaruzzaman

“…Nowdays, there are increasing in demands for alternative source of fuel with several attempts have been conducted to find the best ways for fatty acid collection and algae have been listed as potential source for lipid. …”
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Quasiclassical trajectory study of six-centered bond exchange reaction between hydrogen molecules by Ibrahim Ali , Noorbatcha

“…The dynamics of this reaction is studied using the quasi-classical trajectory approach. We find that the six-centered bond exchange reaction between the three hydrogen molecules do take place but with low reaction probability at translational energies much higher than anticipated on the basis of ab initio calculations. …”
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New approach to suppress mutual coupling between longitudinal-slotted arrays based on SIW antenna loaded with metal-fences working on VHF/UHF frequency-bands: study, investigation,... by Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad, Virdee, Bal Singh, Khalily, Mohsen, See, Chan, Abd-Alhameed, Raed, Falcone, Francisco, Limiti, Ernesto

“…The resulting isolation is shown to be is better than -83 dB across 200 MHz to 1.0 GHz with gain greater than 1.5 dBi, and side-lobe level less than -40 dB. …”
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Adaptive function modal learning neural networks by Kang, Miao

“…Modal learning method is a neural network learning term that refers to a single neural network which combines with more than one mode of learning. It aims to achieve more powerful learning results than a neural network combines with only one single mode of learning. …”
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A study on the benefits of practical training for undergraduate students by Abdullah, Kalthom, Ismail, Yusof, Mhd Sarif, Suhaimi

“…The purpose ofthis study is to find out the students' opinion regarding the benefits ojpractical training If the students find that practical training is beneficial to them, the researchers would like to find Olit in what ways they are beneficial, and ifnot, what are the alternatives…”
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Building Islamic polity within secular frame of political activity in Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey with reference to Ibn Khaldun’s theory of state by Ra'ees, Wahabuddin

“…The relevant question this study investigates is that does the approach of building an Islamic polity within secular frame of political activity fall within Abū Zayd ‘Abdur-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin Khaldūn Al-Ḥaḍrami, (27 May 1332–19 March 1406 AD) @ Ibn Khaldun’s theory of state. …”
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Employee motivation: a Malaysian perspective by Islam, Rafikul, Ismail, Ahmad Zaki

“…The present research intends to find out the effective motivators to the employees working in various Malaysian organizations. …”
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OER@IIUM by Mat Daud, Nuraihan, Abd Hamid, Mohd Azrul Azlen

“…The past few years have seen a steady increase in the number of educational resources that are made accessible to the public. In order to find information on the university, other than on its official website, users also have the option of browsing Wikipedia. …”
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Second language writing anxiety: cause or effect? by Mat Daud, Nor Shidrah, Mat Daud, Nuraihan, Abu Kassim , Noor Lide

“…The findings show that the subjects in this study suffered anxiety as a result of their lack of writing skills, and that the better students experienced less anxiety than the weaker ones.…”
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Hospital domestic Mary Kehoe: she has worked in the health service for most of her 35 years in Britain by O'Brien, Joanne

“…Black and white photograph, mounted on paper and laminated, of a woman emptying the rubbish bin in a hospital washroom. Photograph by Joanne O'Brien, Copyright Joanne O'Brien…”
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Pemetaan zon potensi tanah runtuh bagi jalan persekutuan dan jalan negeri di negeri Johor menggunakan kaedah jumlah ramalan bencana (TEHD) by Raja Abd Assiss, Raja Fairol Farouk

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TTN: a high performance hierarchical interconnection network for massively parallel computers by Rahman, M.M. Hafizur, Inoguchi, Yasushi, Sato, Yukinori, Horiguchi, Susumu

“…It is shown that the TTN possesses several attractive features, including constant node degree, small diameter, low cost, small average distance, moderate (neither too low, nor too high) bisection width, and high throughput and very low zero load latency, which provide better dynamic communication performance than that of other conventional and hierarchical networks. …”
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